During subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) rumen pH is depressed for several hours per day
due to accumulation of volatile fatty acids and insufficient rumen buffering. Surveys …

Rumen health is of vital importance in ensuring healthy and efficient dairy cattle production.
Current feeding programs for cattle recommend concentrate-rich diets to meet the high …

The challenges associated with group-housed dairy cows include within-herd variability in
nutrient consumption and milk production, which may be related to feeding management …

The climate-relevant enteric methane (CH4) formation represents a loss of feed energy that
is potentially meaningful for energetically undersupplied peripartal dairy cows. Higher …

Physically effective neutral detergent fiber (peNDF) is the fraction of neutral detergent fiber
(NDF) that stimulates chewing activity and contributes to the floating mat of large particles in …

Two studies were performed to evaluate the effects of dried distillers grains with solubles
(DDGS) on the lactational performance of dairy cows. The intent of experiment 1 was to …

Eighteen primiparous and 42 multiparous Holstein cows were blocked according to parity
and expected calving date and assigned randomly to 1 of 3 dietary treatments: 1) a basal …

Advancing technologies of the corn dry-milling ethanol production process includes the
mechanical separation of fiber-containing particles from a portion of plant-and yeast-based …

Effects of chop length (shorter= 10mm or longer= 19mm) of alfalfa silage and corn silage
were determined in 16 midlactation Holstein cows using a 4× 4 Latin square design with a …

The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) in
Polish high‐yielding dairy herds. Also, the relationships between the chemical composition …